AMHERST - Amherst Regional High School Principal Mark Jackson is meeting with parents this morning who have questions about a threatening note found in the building Wednesday.

Mark Jackson Wednesday sent a message to parents informing them "the author instructed the finder of the note to deliver the message to me. The other side contained one sentence which referenced the intent of the author to bring a weapon into the building."

No one was named as the focus of the threat, but the note closed with the name of Carolyn Gardner, who has been the victim of four graffiti incidents at the school this academic year, her first.

Amherst Police were immediately notified and "an investigation was launched, including attempting to identify the note's author which is ongoing."

He wrote that police will be present. Sonji Johnson-Anderson, a friend of Gardner's said in an email that the note was signed in Gardner's name as if she was the writer.

Gardner was out of school following the fourth attack this spring and was provided with an escort.

Johnson-Anderson said the administration seems to think this is the work of childish pranksters. "But these pranks are doing psychological violence to the person targeted. We are dismayed that these attacks have persisted."